Re: [Groff] Suggestion for images in groff/gpic, current state

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Indeed!  CSTR54 lists \n[.w] in the table of registers, but it is not
> documented further.

This is now fixed in groff.texinfo.

> I looked into the source code of plan9's troff, and I see that it
> simply contains the last character's width.  BUT: It does *not* hold
> the width of \w.  Instead, it probably contains the width of the
> last character in \w.

I should actually activate my brain before writing...

.w has nothing to do with \w of course.

> [...] `\w' apparently gets a generic width of 0.5em, regardless of
> its contents.

I'm wrong: 0.5em is the width of the last digit printed by \w.


    Werner